2024 COSAFA Under-17 Championship

The 2024 COSAFA Under-17 Championship is the 12th edition of the COSAFA U-17 Championship, a youth football tournament organized by the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) involving teams from Southern Africa for players aged 17 and below. Mozambique will host of tournament from 4–15 December 2024. This competition will serve as the COSAFA qualifiers for the 2025 U-17 Africa Cup of Nations.

2024 COSAFA Under-17 Championship

Tournament details
Host country	Mozambique
Dates	5–14 December 2024
Teams	12
Venue(s)	(in 1 host city)
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Zambia are the defending champion, by defeating South Africa 2–1 in the final on 11 December 2022.

Participating nations

The following twelve teams are contesting in the tournament.

Teams	Appearance	Best Performance
Angola
Botswana	9	Third place (2002)
Malawi	11	Champions (2001)
Comoros
Eswatini
Mauritius
Mozambique	6	Runners-up (1994, 2019)
Lesotho
Namibia	7	Champions (2016)
South Africa	11	Champions (1994, 2002, 2020)
Zambia	11	Champions (2017, 2019, 2022)
Zimbabwe

Draw

The draw was held on 5 September 2024 at 11:00 CET (UTC+2) at Maputo.The 12 teams were drawn into three groups of four teams, with hosts Mozambique seeded in Group A (position A1), the defending champions Zambia seeded in Group B (position B1) and South Africa seeded in Group C (position C1). The remaining 9 teams were allocated to two pots based on the results of the previous tournament edition and were drawn to the remaining positions.

Seeded	Pot 1	Pot 2
Mozambique (hosts) Zambia South Africa	Botswana Malawi Namibia	Angola Comoros Eswatini Lesotho Mauritius Zimbabwe

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Mozambique (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semi-finals
2	Malawi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible Semi-finals
3	Lesotho	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Angola	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source:
(H) Hosts

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Zambia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semi-finals
2	Namibia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible Semi-finals
3	Zimbabwe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Eswatini	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source:

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Africa	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Semi-finals
2	Botswana	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Possible Semi-finals
3	Comoros	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Mauritius	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played: TBD. Source:

See also

• 2024 COSAFA U-20 Cup